Cartalk Puzzler: License Plate
September 3, 2011, 12:00 amDeep Tanning
RAY: You’re driving past a high school parking lot on a fine spring afternoon in Our Fair City, watching the kids try to do wheelies with their parents’ station wagons. You happen to notice a car with an interesting license plate. It reads TAN 270. What ma...
Responses to NYT article on “How to Fix Our Math Education”
September 2, 2011, 12:00 amOriginal on How to Fix Our Math Education article is found here.
Some great responses were mailed in.
Sol Garfunkel and David Mumford are right to observe that the everyday usefulness of our high school math curriculum leaves much to be desired. But since when did practicality become the...
Mandelbrot
September 1, 2011, 12:00 amPassword Strength
August 30, 2011, 12:00 am
To add to this excellent xkcd comic, the following site also exists : Password Haystacks.
Which is a stronger password?
T@+t0O
or
dudewhatdoesmytattoosay
(Click to find out, I’ll wait).
Pretty sweet indeed. What a difference.
Anyways, the reason I’m linking this stuff is th...
Hurricane Irene – Logarithmic Spiral?
August 28, 2011, 12:00 amDoes Hurricane Irene fit a logarithmic spiral?
I made a Geogebra applet to see if it does. Enjoy.
Parametric equation:
Transport $12 billion of gold #anyqs
August 24, 2011, 12:00 amFrom Bloomberg:
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered the central bank to repatriate $11 billion of gold reserves held in developed nations’ institutions such as the Bank of England as prices for the metal rise to a record.
Venezuela, which holds 211 tons of its 365 tons of gold res...
Python Challenge
August 24, 2011, 12:00 am
Python Challenge is a “programming riddle” on the internet.
What is the Python Challenge?
The Python Challenge is a set of riddles that require a little bit of Python programming to be solved. The solutions are entered by changing the address of the page (URL). You get used to the idea pre...
Changes to Intro to Computer Programming
August 23, 2011, 12:00 amThis will be my third year teaching Introduction to Computer Programming. The first year I had 15 students which was a good showing, but last year I only had 5 students. It turned out to be a scheduling issue, but I was still worried about the health of the course, and whether or not it would contin...
Why Hello…
August 20, 2011, 12:00 amI’m updating the hosting of the blog (among other things), so please stay tuned. Cheers. Dan.
